This Does Not Look Promising

Now before you get your fur suits in a wad let me state my position on furries.

I think we can all agree that a pretty girl who wants to wear fox ears and call herself a furry is a wonderful thing….. mmmmmm wonderful thing. (Sorry I got distracted)

But let’s be honest people while doing “Research” about furries through Google images, I saw things… things that cannot be unseen.

I’m entirely willing to embrace the entirety of geek/nerd culture which furries are a part of, but if you want to dress up as a Pig with a massive head and an even bigger massive fur “wang” you can expect to take a little good natures ribbing. (Yes I saw that guy)

Besides I’m not poking fun at all furries. Like I said if a pretty girl wants to put on ears and a tail and call herself a fox. I’m not going to complain.

But let’s be honest if if your out on that fringe (And EVERY group has a fringe) you have to expect people to tease you a bit about it.

If people get offended I say lighten up and feel free to give me a hard time about my obsession with zombies. It’s only fair, and I can take it. (Wow… that sounds like a horrible euphemism, I swear it’s not though)

Agreed , any hobby or fetish taken to an extreme deserves a reality reminding kick in the ass that should just be taken for the kind jarring reminder that “yes yoru being a bit too creepy and shoudl stop it” that it is meant to be

I just don’t get why furries are the main brunt of this though. You’d think that those weirdoes who dress up in ANY costume for sex would get the same attention. (french maid outfits anyone?)

Furries are just fans of cartoon animals… Like Warner brothers cartoons or anime. The VAST majority are creative nuts who like to draw, make music, and write stories. Same as the vast majority of Star Trek fans just like the show, and have no interest whatsoever in dressing like Spock or Troi and boinking. ((0.o))

I’m a furry and I find this funny. ^v^ haven’t seen the pig suit, seen some really good and really bad suits, but most furries dont have suits and many are just like everyone else. normal. well, normal in the idea that we are not all perverted fiends. Even zombie furries are all over.

Only about 11% of the furry fandom have a suit. They cost thousands of dollars, and most people can’t afford them. I think we have all seen some horrifying cosplays in our time, regardless of the related fandom (Sailor Bubba, anyone? He’s a great guy, but that cosplay! *twitch*)

Furries are fans of anthropomorphic animal art. That is all, really. Every group has it’s crazies, even fans of Disney. It’s just that the rare few “adult” furries get all the press, because, let’s face it, shock value sells more newspapers, and gets more viewers on television shows. We are mostly art nuts, and folks who celebrate creativity.

There are a lot of Furries that don’t sexualize it; for many of them, it’s just a case of wanting to let out their Inner Animal, and I know of at least one guy who likes being a furry because it allows him to express his desire for “cuteness” without openly sacrificing his masculinity. Yes, you will see Furries that go overboard, and ones that sexualize it to ludicrous levels. But is a pig costume with a monster dong really that much weirder than a manic philatelist who pastes rare stamps all over his winkie before having sex?

I for myself don’t even know what exactly a furry is and “analising” this strip, all I can find is a pun. Sure, a joke with or about furries quickly gets this sexual tone, but you would really have to stretch the interpretation of this comic to find it offending.
Closer to the subject: Is the convention lead by zombies or survivors?
And I somehow expect to see a talking vulpes vulpes in the near future…

Furries like drawing, writing, and making music about animals that have human characteristics. They’re creativity addicts, mostly. LOL

If folks could keep the sexual tone out of a furry statement, maybe less people would think we are all a bunch of deviants. >.>

There is plenty more to make fun of in the furry fandom than a few fringe nutjobs with boinking on the brain. Stuff that is more accurate, like the fact that we are very often nerds with ears and tails wandering walmart with camcorders or cameras, acting like little kids. That’s horribly accurate, and still really fun to poke fun at.